I want to tell you
something.
This is going to
sound crazy, possibly even heretical.
But…
STOP.
Stop what, you ask?
Stop trying.
Let me back up a
moment.
I’m not advocating
you just up and drop all your responsibilities to be a gypsy in the desert
(though, if you can make that work for you, by all means).
I’m telling you to
stop trying to be you.
Stop trying to earn
your place in this world.
Stop trying to prove
you belong here.
Because the truth is:
you already do.
You are born with an
immense amount of potential and power.
But most of us,
myself included, are perpetual forgetters of those simple truths.
Do you ever wonder
why it is you wake up each morning and repeatedly do things you hate?
Why you feel like you
strive to be better at this or fight to break something you just never seem to
shake?
Why you eventually
feel like you may as well give in to the things you know must be true of
yourself?
Well, I do.
Moreover, I have.
But I don’t, anymore.
Because, at the end
of the day, what you believe about yourself and the world around you matters.
It matters infinitely
more than you likely realize.
Guess what?
If you wake up in the
morning believing “I’m just a screw up,” or “I’m a whore,” or “I can’t do
this,” or “I’ll never be ________,” that’s exactly
what you’ll be.
You will act like
what you believe a screw up is or a whore is or a failure is or just like this
person or not enough like that person, or whatever it is you’re fighting
against.
Now, you may be
thinking, “I don’t wake up thinking those thoughts; I don’t really believe
these lies about myself.”
But let me ask you
this, what do your actions say?
Do you do things you
hate that you can’t seem to break away from?
Do you go to a job
you hate but never make strives to change your situation?
Do you feel the need
to one-up those around you, just so you don’t get thrown to the curb?
Then, I’d venture to
say, something you believe about yourself or the world is amiss.
The world will tell
you, you can’t
They will tell you,
you are a screw up, that you were born into a broken situation, so you will
inevitably remain in said situation.
That you struggle
with this addiction or that character flaw and you will never be able to
change.
But I’m here to tell
you: that’s all a bunch of bullshit.
You are capable.
You are not a screw
up.
You are not your
affliction.
And you have the
power to change your situation.
Try something for me.
Sure, it seems silly,
but what have you got to lose?
Take some time, right
now, to think about your life.
Are you happy with
how things are?
Are you struggling?
Are you striving?
If that’s you, just
like it’s been me, won’t you shift your perspective a little?
Tell yourself the
truth about who you are.
Start believing you
are already enough, that you already have the power to change your situation,
to stop believing all the terrible things you believe you are.
Change begins with
faith.
Faith inspires
others.
Belief in someone,
belief in yourself, will cause you and those around you to accomplish far more
than you could ever dream.
And that is
priceless.
I dare you to change
what you believe.
I dare you to stop
believing lies about yourself.
I dare you to believe
you can and you will, not you can’t and you won’t.
Because you will
always end up exactly where you believe you will.